Published: June 16, 2025
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🧵It’s taken me about 3 yrs of working steadily to unpack this metaphysically dense, rich statement. Hopefully it won’t take others as long. In this thread I’ll break it down a little:

2/ ā€œThe gnostic premise of the death of Godā€¦ā€ What it means: This refers not simply to Nietzsche’s declaration (ā€œGod is deadā€) but to the gnostic metaphysical operation beneath it. Gnosticism posits that the material world is a prison (to be transcended) and the God of creation

3/ ā€ā€¦has a fundamental meaning to the sciencesā€¦ā€ What it means: Modern science was born from the classical (Aristotelian–Thomistic) and Christian assumption that God’s universe is orderly, knowable and real because it is created by Logos. But once the Gnostic premise (God

4/ ā€œā€¦it means also the death of truthā€¦ā€ What it means: Truth, classically defined (Aquinas): ā€œVeritas est adaequatio intellectus et reiā€ (Truth is the conformity of the intellect to reality.) But in (neoplatonic) hermetic and (socio) gnostic-modern terms: Reality is a

5/ ā€ā€¦the affirmation of no.ā€ What it means: This line is devastatingly subtle. The denial of God and therefore of Logos, is not neutral. It becomes an active negation; a cultural, moral, and civilizational ā€œnoā€ to all claims of: fixed order moral realism natural law inherent

7/ ā€œThis, because, by definition, ONE is the ho on, the One-that-is.ā€ What it means: This is metaphysical Greek, drawn from Aristotle’s ontology and Christian metaphysics. The phrase ā€˜ho on’ means ā€œbeing itselfā€ - the ā€œOne that is.ā€ In Aquinas, God is ipsum esse subsistens

8/ Why This Matters Now Today, nearly every major institution; including courts, universities, tech firms and global governance organizations, functions under the assumption that there is no ā€˜ho on’. That truth is fundamentally philosophically pragmatic, merely: Engineered

9/ ā€¼ļøRELEVANCE TO ORDINARY LIFEā€¼ļø This is not abstract. Whether you’re a believer or a non believer, here’s what happens in people’s real lives when the death of God as ā€˜ho on’ takes over - so believers and non believers have to take civic and institutional responsibility when

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